OT: Building a new computer...

[AstralWanderer]

Fyron said:
Or, just by being intelligently designed, so as not to be huge and bloaty...

Well one person's bloat is another person's critical feature and the top-performing firewalls are now expanding into areas like system, process and registry control. That is of lesser relevance in this thread though - the point I was making was that security software can benefit from an extra core.